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The following is a book which readers of this list might find of
interest. For more information please visit
http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/HAMVHF98
The Visual and the Visionary
Art and Female Spirituality in Late Medieval Germany
Jeffrey F. Hamburger
In nine essays embracing the histories of art, religion, and
literature, Jeffrey Hamburger explores the interrelationships between
the visual arts and female spirituality in the context of the cura
monialium, the pastoral care of nuns. Used as instruments of
instruction and inspiration, images occupied a central place in debates
over devotional practice, monastic reform, and mystical expression. Far
from supplementing a history of art from which they have been excluded,
the images made by and for women shaped that history decisively by
defining novel modes of religious expression, above all, the
relationship between sight and subjectivity.
Jeffrey F. Hamburger is Professor of Art History at the University of
Toronto. He is the author of Nuns as Artists: The Visual Culture of a
Medieval Convent and The Rothschild Canticles: Art and Mysticism in
Flanders and the Rhineland Circa 1300.
Distributed for Zone Books
7 1/4 x 11, 580 pp., 246 illus., 5 color
cloth
ISBN 0-942299-45-0
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